Word: nostalgia
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...addition to his scholarly background, Lieberman said his passion for running motivated his research. While he claims he is not a very good runner, he did train for the marathon as a graduate student and looks back with nostalgia on his days living beside the Charles as a tutor in Dunster House...
...terror?" He was referring to the famous 1950 National Security Council memo in which Nitze, who died last week at the splendid age of 97, proposed a strategy for confronting the Soviet Union. But the expert was also remembering, with anger and nostalgia, an era that started with Pearl Harbor and ended with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, when strategic thinking in the priestly realms of foreign and economic policy was unpolluted by short-term partisan politics, when words like intellectual and realism and, yes, global weren't terms of opprobrium. This Administration has presided over the culmination...
...Smile, a watered-down and vastly quieter echo of Smile’s original vision. The Beatles’ release of Sgt. Pepper became a landmark event, and their status atop the rock world was secure. The Beach Boys, lost without their creative force, slipped into artistic irrelevance and nostalgia tours...
...nostalgia for the old theatre, but that’s on a superficial level,” says Tsai of the scene. He suggests that it’s more nostalgia for a different era—a time when grandfathers took their grandchildren to the movies, when people went to the same theatre, when movie theatres would be packed full, as they were in the Taiwan of Tsai’s college years...
...meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don’t intend to spend my future passing judgments on what’s cool and what’s not, either. We may have a long way to go before we start seeing meaning again...